Heating with wood
Table of Contents
Foreword by Joel Salatin
Preface
Introduction
Money in the Yard
A Few Tools to Rule Them All: A Basic Tool Box
Wheelbarrow or Garden Cart?
Holidays, Birthdays, and Achieving a Homestead
1. In the Garden
Small Starts Lead to Success: Garlic in Boxes
Perennial Cardboard Plant Protectors
Easy Raised Beds with Slab, Scrap Wood, Straw Bales, or Concrete Blocks
The Mess of Hay, Straw, Manure and Compost
Fencing and Mulching with Sheet Metal
Mineral Tote Growing Bins
Growing Up Instead of Out: Plant Cages, Trellising, and More
Safety First
Turn Your Homestead Work into Wages
Pallet Propagation and Drying Tables
Compost Underneath the Tables
Compost
Extending the Seasons and Excluding Pests: Low Tunnels
Multi-Use Makes a Big Difference
Simple Garden Gate
Plastic Baggies and Pantyhose
Don't Underestimate the Danger of Drift
Information Box: Turn a Trampoline into Almost Anything
Basic Conversion
Where You Can Go from Here
2. For Your Animals
Fencing
Keeping Them Fed and Watered
Kid-Sized Infrastructure
Keeping Animals Warm and Dry
Brooding, Roosting, and Bedding
Keeping the Bugs at Bay
Winter-Time Light and Water
Information Box: Climbing Rope
Tire Swing
Bale Toppling
Snow Cleaning
Load Securing
3. In the Barn and Workshop
Low-Cost Shelves, Quick Shelves
Tool Storage
"Oiled Sand" to Stop Rust and Protect Your Tools
Storing All Your Stuff
Let There Be Light
Information Box: The Many Uses of IBC Totes
Storing Kindling and Small-Sized Wood Scraps
Baker's Green Acre's Animal Feed Storage
Worm Compost
Animal Shelter or Chicken Brooder
So Many Other Uses
IBC Tote, Plastic Barrel, and Other Material Safety Concerns
What About a Cage With No Tote
4. Outfitting Your Home
Trading Time for Money
Making Your Own Cleaning Supplies
Storing Your Surplus: Sloped Bucket Storage from Scrap Wood
Can You Store What You Grow?
Turning Trash into Treasure
Pieces of Scrap Pipe to Move Heavy Objects
Cinder-Block Shelves
Two Pairs of Shoes
Paint Your Entire House for Under a Hundred Bucks?
Cutting the Cost on Good Clothes
Finding Appliances and Furniture
Other Great Places to Grab Furniture — If the Amish Don't Come a-Calling
Information Box: Greenhouse Plastic
Covering Wood Piles
Solarizing Weeds
Low Tunnels
Cold Frames and Hot Boxes
5. Becoming More Self-Sufficient
Food
What is the Best Animal?
Learn Plant Propagation
Truly Free Food: Foraging from the Homestead
Eat Your Yard Out: The Benefits of Edible Landscaping
Medicine
Cooking When it Counts
Water
Heat
Community
Information Box: Combining Pieces and Projects
Pallets Plus Cattle Panels: Andy Buchler's Animal Shelter
Sheet Metal or Greenhouse Plastic + IBC Tote Cages for Wood Storage
Simple Outdoor Storage
Speeding Up Wood Seasoning
Caleb's Composite Bow
6. Sourcing and Resources
Construction Sites and Construction Supply Stores
Libraries
Craigslist
You Have Not Because You Ask Not
Freecycle
Facebook and Facebook Marketplace
Friends
Barter Makes Friendships Better
Salvage and ReStores
Pawnshops and Similar Businesses
Salvage and Tear Down
Estate Sales, Auctions, and Farm Auctions
Online Auctions
Thrift Stores
Roadsides and Parking Lots
Your Local Landfill or Recycling Center
Automated Online Shopping
Acknowledgements
Final Note
Index
About the Author
About New Society Publishers
